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TIL that during Hurricane Camille in 1969, the rainfall in Virgina was
so heavy that birds drowned in trees and people had to cup hands around
their face to breathe. According to the weather service, it was the
probable maximum rainfall which meteorologists compute to be
theoretically possible.
(URL) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Camille#Virginia (https://en.wikipedia.org)
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|u/le_goalie - 1 month
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|TIL Mother Nature will straight up waterboard you if she’s in the mood.
|u/helgestrichen - 1 month
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|Enhanced Irrigation
|u/iowaisflat - 1 month
|
|Doesn’t really seem like an effective technique though, has some
|major flaws.
|u/DaFreezied - 1 month
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|You just want the terrornithologists to win. ^^I ^^admit, ^^that
|^^was ^^a ^^stretch.
|u/0neLetter - 1 month
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|Some times you just have to go overboard to get the results you
|want.
|u/TurtleneckTrump - 1 month
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|No no, she will straight up drown you apparently. Poor birds, that's
|fucking insane
|u/Profreadsalot - 1 month
|
|Drowning in the rain. New fear, unlocked.
|u/lurker_101 - 1 month
|
|**Beryl was only** Cat 1 or 2 and did this as the eye passed over *..
|like a solid waterfall for about a half hour .. 30 miles inland and
|the rainwater built up around a foot almost reaching the front porch*
|.. even a "small one" has tornados .. found quite a few trees with
|split trunks afterward .. so lucky it was not a 4 or worse
|u/Likemypups - 1 month
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|So, how MUCH did it rain?
|u/Kharn0 - 1 month
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|Officially 27 inches but unofficial reports almost 40” in 12 hours as
|most gauges washed away. Some bursts were 5 inches in 30 mins
|u/hippee-engineer - 1 month
|
|The world record for 24hr rainfall total is 43” in Alvin, TX. Home
|of Nolan Ryan. Unrelated.
|u/pudding7 - 1 month
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|> Unrelated. You can't know that.
|u/hippee-engineer - 1 month
|
|Fair.
|u/ikeepwipingSTILLPOOP - 1 month
|
|Has anyone ever seen Nolan Ryan and Hurricane Camille in the
|same room at the same time?
|u/ParaNormalBeast - 1 month
|
|Once, in ‘83. But I was just Nolan in the room
|u/Prize-Can4849 - 1 month
|
|Robin Ventura saw them both at the same time.
|u/rainbowgeoff - 1 month
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|He commandeth the sky to pour down; sort of how he rained down
|punches on that dude's head when he charged the mound.
|u/benchley - 1 month
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|Robin Ventura?
|u/bimbampilam - 1 month
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|robin ventura
|u/beatsgoinghammer - 1 month
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|I'm also unrelated to Nolan Ryan
|u/doyletyree - 1 month
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|Distant cousin. Texas, too, so they *think* everything’s
|bigger.
|u/tenoclockrobot - 1 month
|
|[This data from NOAA](https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitoring/
|scec/records/all/maxp) says Hawaii had a record of 49.69" [And
|this from the WMO](https://wmo.int/asu-
|map?original_nid=21824&map=Rain_081&book=21486) says the world
|record is 71.8"
|u/shnikeys22 - 1 month
|
|That world record is from a place called Foc Foc. I assumed it
|got the name because people said “Foc, that’s a lot of rain”
|u/tenoclockrobot - 1 month
|
|Interestingly, according to same NOAA source the (non-
|tropics*) world record may be from PA: >Arguably the greatest
|24-hour rainfall on record outside of the tropics occurred
|around Smethport, PA on July 17, 1942. A post-event survey by
|the Weather Bureau provided a widely accepted maximum storm
|rainfall of 34.50 inches within a 12 hour period, of which an
|estimated 30.60 inches fell in just 6 hours. ***30.6" in 6
|hours*** is fucking nuts
|u/sociapathictendences - 1 month
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|I would probably think the world was ending
|u/elavil4you - 1 month
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|They moved from Phuket and wanted a simpler name so decided to
|just go with Foc.
|u/Successful-Lobster90 - 1 month
|
|Mt Bartle Frere had 2000mm in 24hrs, but the only reference I
|can find for it is Wikipedia.
|u/SweetEuneirophrenia - 1 month
|
|Ha! I'm originally from Galveston and whenever I think of Alvin I
|also automatically think "Home of Nolan Ryan", plus having worked
|in Lake Jackson I think of 288 as Nolan Ryan Expressway.
|u/Nv1023 - 1 month
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|Even Chuck Norris calls it Nolan Ryan Expressway! Respect
|u/Chadite - 1 month
|
|Outside ofFacebook and the brain eating amoeba we had back in
|2020? 2021? I have NEVER seen Lake Jackson mentioned by another
|human being on the internet. My condolences. (I'm still in the
|area)
|u/hippee-engineer - 1 month
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|Pearland over here, but I used to stay on 12@ Winnie in
|Galveston.
|u/SweetEuneirophrenia - 1 month
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|Oh shit, Winnie. I hadn't thought of Winnie in years upon
|years. When I was a kid we'd hit the ferry and go past Winnie
|on our way to Port Arthur. We used to get excited because it
|meant we were less than a half hour away.
|u/hippee-engineer - 1 month
|
|You mean the ferry traffic backed up all the way to Winnie,
|and it was 30 minutes for the line to move all the way to
|the ferry?
|u/SweetEuneirophrenia - 1 month
|
|You just unlocked a childhood memory of me waiting so long
|for the ferry one summer that I just decided to pee right
|there on the back seat. Luckily it wasn't our car, but a
|cop car. Our car had been knocked off the road somewhere
|in crystal beach.
|u/That47Dude - 1 month
|
|I was @ ferry/post office. Ppl would often be waiting for
|hours, not 30 mins, to get by my street- especially slab
|weekend and the jeep weirdos. Died down a lot once they
|made the parking for Stewart beach not a constant tide
|pool.
|u/Jeff8247 - 1 month
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|I love Galveston as much as I love the big women of San Antonio!
|u/Likemypups - 1 month
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|Far enough south and near the Gulf coast to be hurricane related.
|u/hippee-engineer - 1 month
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|It was hurricane related. The one in 1969 iirc.
|u/NippleSalsa - 1 month
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|2004?
|u/hippee-engineer - 1 month
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|Nah I think it was back in 1969 or so. I grew up a short drive
|from there, and remember reading it in a 1997 Guinness book.
|u/TheG-What - 1 month
|
|Fun Nolan Ryan fact! Not only does Tyan have the career record for
|most strikeouts, he also holds the record for most walks!
|Subscribe for more MLB trivia!
|u/Zahlii - 1 month
|
|Source? Because most records for rain come from La Reunion: Most
|in 24 hours (1 day): 1,825 mm (71.9 in); Cilaos, Réunion, 7–8
|January 1966, during Tropical Cyclone Denise.
|u/Kerchemer - 1 month
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|lol no its 1825mm (71.8 inches) on Réunion island USA is not the
|world
|u/Micalas - 1 month
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|That's biblical levels of rain
|u/ADtotheHD - 1 month
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|My wife is gonna have to start calling me Hurricane Camille
|u/NotSayinItWasAliens - 1 month
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|It was 5" in 30 mins, not 3" in 2 mins.
|u/5H17SH0W - 1 month
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|Got ‘em.
|u/Markkk01 - 1 month
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|Nah m8 hurricane Camille would have got her wet.
|u/ExplanationLover6918 - 1 month
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|How is it measured ?like I'm imagining a test tube with the
|measurement on the side being in inches.
|u/willengineer4beer - 1 month
|
|That’s a pretty accurate visualization. A lot of times they
|have a cone at the top of a thing that looks like a graduated
|cylinder (the cone helps to better collect wind blown rain coming
|down at an angle). Since the cone increases the catchment
|area relative to the cylinder, an inch in the cylinder doesn’t
|equal an inch of rainfall. Like if the cone is twice as wide
|as the cylinder, one inch of actual rainfall will give a water
|depth of 4 inches. That also makes it easier to measure/read
|fractional inches of rainfall. I’ve never seen any gauges made
|to measure anywhere close to these Camille levels, but I imagine
|NWS stations probably have them.
|u/hops4breakfast - 1 month
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|Ha! “5 inches in 30 minutes”, name of your…. Weather Tape? The
|maximum rainfall happens right at the Climate.
|u/Scr1mmyBingus - 1 month
|
|“But the record for highest rainfall in Virginia only goes back to
|1969 when the rain gauges were mysteriously washed away….”
|u/Lance_E_T_Compte - 1 month
|
|I was backpacking in Hawai'i (Kauai) and it supposedly rained 18
|inches on us in one night. It was fucking ridiculous. We were standing
|in more than four inches of water literally everywhere. What do you
|do? We just moved as high as we could get and sat in the dark
|laughing. Any more water and we'd be swimming. I cannot imagine it 40
|inches... Edit: I'm 99% sure this was BEFORE Iniki in the early
|1990s.
|u/1II1I1I1I1I1I111I1I1 - 1 month
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|A bit less than 30 inches, but almost all of that in a three hour
|period, peaking around 10pm IIRC. Most were asleep and did not receive
|any warning. The rumor about birds drowning isnt true either, there
|is nothing verifying it and that isnt how birds breathe anyway. It was
|also not a hurricane when this happened, it had long weakened to a
|tropical depression. What *did* happen were landslides and debris
|flows. Nelson County was basically fully washed away. 100 something
|people died via blunt force trauma because of the landslides
|specifically, with some more drowning, and there are several bodies
|that were never identified. One thing that is frequently lost in
|retellings of this event are what debris flows actually are. Most
|envision water and stuff slowly sliding down the hill, but it's not
|that, these are very sudden and violent events. Debris flows are water
|carrying mud, sediment, trees, rocks, houses, cars, etc. at 40mph. It
|is functionally a mass of solid debris that is moving as a fluid. They
|are not necessarily uncommon, but during this event they occurred at
|an catastrophically large scale. I'm fairly sure you can still see
|exposed hillsides in Nelson County currently. It was at such a large
|scale that there is an (unconfirmed but plausible) theory that the
|death toll may have been much higher, since entire families could
|theoretically have been swept away with no bodies recovered and nobody
|left to report them as missing, especially since this is a rural area
|with inadequate record-keeping. If an entire holler is simply gone,
|who is gonna tell you who lived there? As an aside, in response to
|another question there are many in this comment section claiming that
|nothing changed after this disaster. This is not true. This event was
|one of the many that contributed to the formation of FEMA in the
|following decade, and to this day Virginia has one of the strictest
|weather-related building codes in the nation (given a 96/100 score by
|the IBHS, in the #1 spot \[[PDF](https://ibhs1.wpenginepowered.com/wp-
|content/uploads/RTS_2024_v2.pdf)\]) TLDR: The total volume of
|rainfall was not particularly anomalous, but what was notable is the
|speed at which this happened. This was sudden and fast.
|u/MixerFistit - 1 month
|
|The debris flows you describe sound very much like a coal disaster
|from the 1960s, not too far from me in Aberfan, Wales. Due to an
|act of extraordinary recklessness and negligence, heavy rain
|saturated a 110ft tip, which then became a 40ft wall of temporarily
|liquified waste rubble, being washed down a mountain side, slamming
|into a primary school at speed, and wiping out a generation of young
|children Probably worthy of a TIL in its own right if not already.
|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberfan_disaster It was long before I
|was born, but I have visited the memorial garden and the cemetery
|and it is a place that is very hard to describe. If haunting,
|terribly sad and beautiful had a single word. I'm not sure even the
|Germans have a word for the feelings.
|u/barbarbarbarbarbarba - 1 month
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|“The Aberfan Disaster Memorial Fund (ADMF) was established on the
|day of the disaster. It received nearly 88,000 contributions,
|totalling £1.75 million. The remaining tips were removed only
|after a lengthy fight by Aberfan residents against resistance from
|the NCB and the government on the grounds of cost. The site's
|clearance was paid for by a government grant and a forced
|contribution of £150,000 taken from the memorial fund.” Wtf
|u/MixerFistit - 1 month
|
|Yeah, they really were different times. It seems insane that it
|was even considered let alone carried out. To this day, there
|are still "at risk" sites that are monitored
|https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-67414904
|u/barbarbarbarbarbarba - 1 month
|
|I’m glad someone is keeping an eye out now. I don’t know what
|the attitude towards small towns like this was in the UK in
|the 60s, but in this case they clearly didn’t give a fuck
|about these people. It’s upsetting.
|u/flynntlers - 1 month
|
|Nobody cared about small Welsh towns, or Wales in general
|I'd argue. Capel Celyn was totally destroyed when the
|Tryweryn valley was flooded to create a reservoir to provide
|water for the English. A decision by councillors in
|Liverpool where not a single Welsh voice was considered. Our
|lives clearly meant very little to them.
|u/SwimmingPost5747 - 1 month
|
|I only knew about this previously from watching The Crown on
|Netflix.
|u/Wraith11B - 1 month
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|I learned about that from an AAR on the Paradox boards... So sad.
|u/MixerFistit - 1 month
|
|The first time I heard about it I was in school, aged about 15
|somewhere around 2000. Expecting a games session, our PE teacher
|and rugby coach sat us all down infront of a TV in the middle of
|the sports hall and played a documentary without explanation.
|It's the only class session I remember where nobody made any
|jokes or messed about. We just sat there in either silence or
|disbelief that something like that could be allowed to happen
|u/Noktilucent - 1 month
|
|27" of rain is ABSOLUTELY particularly anomalous. That's much more
|than half of what's expected in an entire year in VA, where most of
|the state averages around 35-45 inches. Yes, the rate of rainfall
|is the most important thing to look at, but it's not possible to
|look at rate and total independently like that. Even 27" in a
|month's time would cause flooding.
|u/waldoj - 1 month
|
|I was at James River State Park last month (across the river from
|Nelson) and along the river there were these weird gullies running
|perpendicular to the river maybe every eighth of a mile, each maybe
|20’ across and 8’ deep. But obviously they weren’t seasonal streams.
|I didn’t get it. I asked a park ranger, who explained they formed in
|1969 from Camille, from absolute torrents of rain rampaging down the
|mountainside. Those scars will be there for thousands of years.
|u/Shelltoesyes - 1 month
|
|Northern Virginia is a huge swamp. We would end up with 6 inches of
|water in the basement anytime it rained hard in the spring. 27 inches
|would be insane
|u/J-Colio - 1 month
|
|The bridge in [this photo](https://www.reddit.com/r/rva/s/Njxc8Kbu4Y)
|is normally about 20+ FEET above the James River. You can see the
|outline of the bridge by the street lights poking up through the
|water.
|u/OneTreePhil - 1 month
|
|Reminds me of The Man Who Rode Thunder, who almost drowned (among other
|things!) while falling through a thundercloud [(summary
|here)](https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-military/2023/07/18/meet-
|the-marine-who-rode-the-thunder-and-lived-to-tell-the-tale/)
|u/izza123 - 1 month
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|Your injury is not service related
|u/Capybara_Pulled_Up - 1 month
|
|Why are people no longer joining the military? :'( We treat them
|like dogshit while in, dogshit while out -- what else do they want?
|u/CapybaraNightmare - 1 month
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|Capybara supremacy 😎
|u/PresumedSapient - 1 month
|
|Make that a writing prompt. "When the floods wiped out most of
|Human civilization, the Capybara Supremacy rose to power. Years
|have passed, and the last humans have been reduced to petting
|servitude..."
|u/Capybara_Pulled_Up - 1 month
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|MY PEOPLE
|u/Confident_As_Hell - 1 month
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|I am in the military. Because if I wasn't, I'd be arrested
|u/N7_anonymous_guy - 1 month
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|> and returned to active duty shortly thereafter. Oorah
|u/Physical_Ring_794 - 1 month
|
|"ah, well back to it!"
|u/space253 - 1 month
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|Lands on ground at 1045pm sunday. Boss: see you at your post at
|430am monday!
|u/Lithosphere11 - 1 month
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|That book price Jesus
|u/Lectrice79 - 1 month
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|I read it online at the internet archive, you can borrow it here!
|https://archive.org/details/manwhorodethunde00rank
|u/Lithosphere11 - 1 month
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|Oo, thank you!
|u/Lectrice79 - 1 month
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|You're welcome!
|u/WillowSLock - 1 month
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|If you click on it, it’s *only* $189 bucks. The thing about books
|that aren’t being printed anymore is that those who own the books
|decide the price
|u/SsurebreC - 1 month
|
|Book collector [and sometimes seller] here. Don't I wish?! No, the
|market decides the price and sometimes some rich fuck comes along
|and screws up prices for everyone else by spiking that price which
|makes sellers change their listings. They salivate and think the
|market is going to deliver but nope... that one rich fuck who
|didn't give a damn was the only one who wanted it. So all those
|books are going to drop in price and return back to normal. Most
|of the time. Sometimes the prices keep on going higher. For
|instance, the expectation for a first edition, first print of Dune
|is to go higher in price. It did. Then the sequel came out and did
|the price go higher? Yep. The sequel has been out for almost half
|a year. Prices are still going higher. About 5 years ago, you
|could get it for less than $1,500. A recent auction sold for $13k+
|(including buyer's premium). I'm sitting pretty with my two copies
|but I also know the price will probably drop back into normal
|levels next year or two. Or it might not, as is the case of The
|Catcher in the Rye when the price for that just kept on going
|higher.
|u/Somnif - 1 month
|
|Or sometimes, one rich fuck will make an out-of-print book
|popular enough to drag it back into print. Which is how I can
|now own a physical copy of "Ignition! An Informal History of
|Liquid Rocket Propellants" by John D Clark. ....but have to see
|Musk's name and a quote on the cover every time I look at it.
|u/Canisa - 1 month
|
|It's not too difficult to re-cover a book if you don't like
|the one it comes with - we used to use wrapping paper to do it
|to our exercise books in primary school.
|u/Somnif - 1 month
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|Paperback, in this case.
|u/whiteflagwaiver - 1 month
|
|Now, this might just be my inner freedom of knowledge mind
|speaking here. But where are those goody 2 shoe ne're-do-wells
|that totally wouldn't scan these books and disseminate them
|online for free?
|u/Jacuul - 1 month
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|I think the value of the books is in the edition, not the
|actual words. I have a copy the first three Dune books in a
|collection for about $30 I got several years ago
|u/SsurebreC - 1 month
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|You'd be looking at the fine folks at https://archive.org.
|u/Lithosphere11 - 1 month
|
|Even almost 200 is a little outrageous. Which is a shame
|u/WillowSLock - 1 month
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|Oh, it’s absolutely ridiculous, I agree
|u/LoudReggie - 1 month
|
|I found a copy of the book on the internet archive. You need to log
|in to rent it but I'm assuming it's free to read this way.
|https://archive.org/details/manwhorodethunde00rank/mode/1up
|u/TheOnlyFallenCookie - 1 month
|
|Imagine trying to make a book about a singular sky dive
|u/Ganjaleezarice69 - 1 month
|
|God damn what an insane circumstance. Badass that he lived to tell
|about it
|u/Nuggzulla01 - 1 month
|
|No kidding dude, that was one hell of a story! My god, I cannot
|even imagine 1/10th of what that must have been like every single
|second of his experience! I really just wanna say this dude is/was
|a genuine BADASS just for the fact he had this experience and
|survived to tell the tale!
|u/Sure_Pilot5110 - 1 month
|
|"The Man Who Rode the Thunder” — available for a cool $799.29 on
|Amazon."
|u/tom2091 - 1 month
|
|>Reminds me of The Man Who Rode Thunder, who almost drowned (among
|other things!) while falling through a thundercloud (summary here)
|Thank you This was a fascinating read
|u/ilikepants712 - 1 month
|
|>Ejecting into air that was approximately -65 F, Rankin experienced
|instant discomfort. I feel like they're underselling it a bit here.
|u/lavegasola - 1 month
|
|What the fuck? That is insane lmao
|u/TigersEverywhere - 1 month
|
|“I’ve been falling, for 40 minutes!”
|u/Ye_kya - 1 month
|
|Holy shit, that was a good read
|u/conspiracy_troll - 1 month
|
|I was a baby when this storm came through coastal Ms. I grew up with the
|stories and the photos of damage on the coast. One of the stories I
|heard from my dad, is that a wind monitor device (windometer? lol) on
|Keesler AFB in Biloxi blew off at a gust speed of 220mph.
|https://www.goupstate.com/picture-gallery/news/2019/08/16/archive-
|photos-hurricane-camille-s-incredible/67680592007/
|u/A_Queer_Owl - 1 month
|
| anemometer is the word you're looking for.
|u/penelopiecruise - 1 month
|
|Like the things that grow in the ocean?
|u/nightkingmarmu - 1 month
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|Anenonename
|u/loosterbooster - 1 month
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|Don't hurt yourself kid
|u/tellurmomisaidthanks - 1 month
|
|No, you’re thinking of a punctuation mark used to denote
|possession or omission.
|u/primalbluewolf - 1 month
|
|No, thats apostrophe. You're thinking of the end of the world.
|u/Conman3880 - 1 month
|
|No, that's apocalypse. An apostrophe is the element with
|atomic number 51
|u/KingWolfsburg - 1 month
|
|No that's Antimony. You're thinking of the money some pays
|their ex after a divorce
|u/ArnassusProductions - 1 month
|
|That's alimony. You probably wanted a sudden realization.
|u/LavenderMcDade - 1 month
|
|That's an epiphany. You're thinking of the goddess of
|love in Greek mythology.
|u/aeternitatisdaedalus - 1 month
|
|No that's Aphrodite. You're thinking of a Japanese
|dish prepared with immature soybeans in the pod.
|u/amusingmistress - 1 month
|
|No, that's alimony. You're thinking of that Bruce Willis
|asteroid movie.
|u/hitbluntsandfliponce - 1 month
|
|That’s Armageddon. I believe you’re thinking of a
|deviation from what’s expected.
|u/LavenderMcDade - 1 month
|
|That's an anomaly. You're thinking of when a monarch
|gives up their crown.
|u/speculatrix - 1 month
|
|No, you're thinking of bowel flushing/purging
|u/dwehlen - 1 month
|
|No, that's enema. You're thinking of japanise cartoons.
|u/phlegm_de_la_phlegm - 1 month
|
|Many an anemone has an enemy anemone 
|u/Grasscutter101 - 1 month
|
|“BEFORE: In August 1969, a dozen people gathered at the Richelieu
|Apartments, in the Gulf Coast town of Pass Christian, Miss. Stocked
|with food and drink, they were going to have a hurricane party.
|Another dozen residents also opted to wait out the storm in their
|apartments. “ “AFTER: Camille hit Pass Christian head-on. And the
|next morning, there were no partyers. One of the 24 was found alive,
|clinging to a tree 5 miles inland. And no Richelieu. Just a slab.”
|Jesus. Must’ve been a wild party.
|u/best_user_name_ever - 1 month
|
|It's an urban legend. "An Urban legend about Camille states that 24
|residents of the Richelieu Manor Apartments in Pass Christian,
|Mississippi, which was in the path of the eyewall, held a “hurricane
|party” as the hurricane made landfall, and that all but one died. In
|actuality, there was no party; 23 people are known to have stayed in
|the apartments during the hurricane, eight of whom died despite
|taking all precautions they knew in order to secure the building.
|The tale of the party, and the lone survivor, apparently originated
|with survivor Mary Ann Gerlach, who also told her story in a 1989
|episode of Nova. Another survivor, Ben Duckworth, has expressed
|irritation at the story. “There was no hurricane party,” Duckworth
|reiterated in 2001. “We were exhausted from boarding up windows and
|helping the police move cars. We were too tired to party. I can’t
|tell you why that story persists, or why people didn’t put two and
|two together. I guess the hurricane party makes a good story.”
|u/lukewarmpartyjar - 1 month
|
|"There is no record of a hurricane party in Pass Christian" "Yes,
|but the records only go back to 1969, when the hall of records was
|mysteriously blown away"
|u/Hije5 - 1 month
|
|In case anyone is curious about a hurricane party, it isn't usually
|a full-fledged party. They aren't celebrating a hurricane's arrival.
|It isn't like people are handing out fomal invites or anything,
|unless perhaps they're very wealthy and/or they know they're in a
|very safe area. A lot of people celebrate it to their own degree,
|but it isn't a formal event nor your typical idea of a party. It
|isnt like you can stock up on perishables when a major hurricane is
|coming, nor can you get that inebriated depending on your
|location/income. It is just a way to make light of a shitty
|situation and an excuse for people, numerous families, and friends
|to come together during a time of crisis. Basically, they are like
|end-of-the-world parties without any permanent aspects. At least in
|the south, you'd be surprised how quickly everyone sets aside their
|differences when a major storm hits and devestates. Everyone was
|only a Louisianan when Katrina hit. Nothing more, nothing less. Good
|ol' [Cajun Army](http://thecajunarmy.com/) and [Cajun
|Navy](https://www.cajunnavyrelief.com/). The [Cajun Navy
|Wiki](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cajun_Navy).
|u/Available-Brain-1805 - 1 month
|
|It's a hurricane party when the power goes out and you cook all
|the food that might go bad before power comes back on so you grill
|out and feed the neighbors, and watch the wind throw debris at
|your car
|u/bubblesculptor - 1 month
|
| My favorite hurricane party story is from Katrina in New
|Orleans. Crossed paths with a homeless guy after Katrina and
|we discussed our experiences. Supposedly he was riding out the
|storm in a French Quarter or Garden District restaurant that
|he's on good terms with the owners.  Like he helps them out
|occasionally and get leftovers etc. Anyway he was staying at
|the restaurant keeping watch over things and once electricity
|was out he began cooking up all the food knowing it would
|otherwise spoil.  So he was eating the finest meats they had
|stocked, drinking finest champagnes etc.  Invited over other
|homeless friends and they all ate/drink like kings for a few
|days.   The owners had no way to contact him for weeks and
|were worried sick assuming the worst that he died in storm. 
|Eventually they got in touch and he laughed about not having any
|problems at all, just fat & drunk from his feast! Maybe this
|story is mostly embellishment but I choose not to let truth hold
|back a good story!
|u/KeyPear2864 - 1 month
|
|I don’t think champagne spoils though lol
|u/pocketnotebook - 1 month
|
|Better open another one, just to make sure
|u/Telvyr - 1 month
|
|He couldn't take that risk, what if some rich snob got sick
|of bad champagne. That was a right civil service that man
|did.
|u/NoPoet3982 - 1 month
|
|He was raised by Lucille Bluth.
|u/J5892 - 1 month
|
|It does if it's submerged in water. Though the French
|Quarter didn't flood too badly.
|u/imarc - 1 month
|
|Katrina was so bad. It deserves a good story or two.
|u/Hije5 - 1 month
|
|The grilling! It's such a fun part. There is something so
|calming about having numerous people in a good mood prior to the
|power going out since everyone knows it'll likely happen. There
|is also something oddly serene about the weather when the
|hurricane is nearing the coast.
|u/Available-Brain-1805 - 1 month
|
|I love watching the hurricanes roll it, it's the best weather,
|fun to watch, and you do a little community building with your
|neighbors and everyone feels a little safer for it xD
|u/conspiracy_troll - 1 month
|
|[The Band of Heathens, Hurricane](https://m.youtube.com/watc
|h?v=75X4bWf5fIs&pp=ygUaYmFuZCBvZiBoZWF0aGVucyBodXJyaWNhbmU%3
|D)
|u/TheWonderPony - 1 month
|
|[Levon Helm, Hurricane](https://youtu.be/YyTaiqX0BfQ?si=nS
|XI4Vm8HVIr1x-P)
|u/Ancient_Amount3239 - 1 month
|
|Can’t believe that has 55 million views!
|u/HarpersGhost - 1 month
|
|The locals on the NC outer banks would buy the food and liquor
|the tourists leave behind for real cheap, and use that as the
|party. And the party would happen at the location that people
|think is the sturdiest.
|u/mackattack-77 - 1 month
|
|We lived in South Florida for a while and every hurricane that
|swung by brought the best barbecues you could go to
|u/lotsofpaper - 1 month
|
|You know what type of construction I don't trust to shelter me
|during a hurricane? An apartment building. A school?
|Probably... Hospital? Maybe. Police station? Yeah. An
|apartment? No... Have you ever looked at the plans for one?
|There's practically no reinforcing in the footing, and literally
|none in the slab, if there even is one... the walls are minimal
|and the roofing is the cheapest possible configuration.
|u/VestmentsByGarak - 1 month
|
|This guy Floridas.
|u/91Bolt - 1 month
|
|As someone from central florida, hurricane parties are definitely
|fun for half the people. It's a slumber party for adults, where
|everyone from Florida is excited to play board games and card
|games by candle light, sit in the garage or porch during the
|softer parts, force the dogs into the rain to pee and poop, and
|get drunk enough to go swimming if there's a pool. The other
|half of the party, usually those who moved here from New England,
|is freaking the fuck out and is confused just enough to think
|maybe this is all okay.
|u/CruisinJo214 - 1 month
|
|As someone who rode out a couple hurricanes in college dorms. We
|had parties. We ran in the rain. It was pre-Katrina and we were in
|the south. Good (but not very safe) times.
|u/Yourwanker - 1 month
|
|>As someone who rode out a couple hurricanes in college dorms.
|We had parties. We ran in the rain. It was pre-Katrina and we
|were in the south. Same for me. My college was 130 miles from
|the coast so by the time any hurricane hit it was usually a cat
|2 or less. Everything shut down in the city and we'd have huge
|hurricane parties with lots of alcohol and drugs. Fun times.
|u/MTFBinyou - 1 month
|
|We would get a keg, cases of beer, a ton of liquor, some party
|favors and a bunch of snacks and stuff to grill and throw down
|for a couple days with 15-20 people.  Basically our main friend
|group would come to our house as we had a big house/property
|right by campus and it was already set up for parties.  We had
|a granite beer pong table, I miss that thing.
|u/WeirdGymnasium - 1 month
|
|> some party favors I know what you're referring to, but I
|can't stop laughing about everyone wearing one of those "Happy
|Birthday" cone hats with "birthday" crossed out and
|"hurricane" sharpied in.
|u/gimpwiz - 1 month
|
|Recreational drugs, yes. The happy kind, not the sad kind,
|unless you hang out with sad people.
|u/MTFBinyou - 1 month
|
|Yes, but remember. All things are good in moderation.
|Including moderation.
|u/DreiKatzenVater - 1 month
|
|In the northern states, they have blizzard parties for the exact
|same reasons
|u/schnitzelfeffer - 1 month
|
|I've never heard of a blizzard party but for the last huge
|blizzard we had I made a huge pot of soup and passed it out to
|the neighbors after all the guys were done snowblowing all the
|driveways and sidewalks on our block.
|u/NibblesMcGiblet - 1 month
|
|> Everyone was only a Louisianan when Katrina hit This is the
|exact same way that New Yorkers reacted after 9/11. We were all
|just Americans, trying to find people and get a bearing on what
|the hell was going on. For all the stereotypes of being rude or
|standoffish or uncaring or whatever, everyone really came
|together. I remember watching Katrina unfold on tv, I was glued to
|it and horrified throughout. Hurricanes are something else.
|Tropical Storm Lee decimated my small upstate NY town back when my
|now-21 year old was in second grade (still feels like "a few years
|ago") and Debby just flooded out our camping spot a few days ago
|when my kids and I were camping for Elements festival. Porta
|potties blown over, tents collapsed, people on air mattresses
|waking up on newly formed ponds on the campground - it was
|something else. I guess I'm rambling. Your comment just brought
|back a whole slew of memories. It's weird getting older, thinking
|back to all the crazy stuff you lived through.
|u/Septopuss7 - 1 month
|
|The cops down there ran wild, though. Like they had beef with
|the community or something
|u/DoctorJJWho - 1 month
|
|Are you completely ignoring the massive increase of violent
|crime against people who looked vaguely Middle Eastern? To the
|point where Sikhs were removing their turbans because idiotic
|racists were targeting them on the streets of NYC (and the rest
|of the US)? Like yeah it was nice to see some unity for the
|victims of 9/11 but you’re incredibly naive if you think “We
|were all just Americans”.
|u/undeadmanana - 1 month
|
|Did that happen during 9/11 or was that something that
|occurred later on in response to 9/11? Maybe it's just me
|but I feel like the effects during an ongoing crisis differ a
|little from the long term effects and you're confusing what
|the post you're replying to is talking about.
|u/DoctorJJWho - 1 month
|
|In the one month following 9/11, there were 800 reported
|violent or hate crimes against Sikhs alone. I personally
|know several Sikhs and Indians who were specifically
|targeted at school, and their parents were harassed in NYC
|where they worked. All within a week or two of 9/11, in NYC
|and on LI. So no, the happy feelings of “everyone is
|American” did not extend to *everyone*, even in the
|immediate aftermath.
|u/RepulsiveReasoning - 1 month
|
|There was a horrifying amount of race-based murder in the
|aftermath of Katrina in the more rural regions
|u/eganwall - 1 month
|
|Yep, was looking for this comment - not everyone considered
|everyone else to be "just Louisianan" after Katrina
|u/RepulsiveReasoning - 1 month
|
|Yeah, lots of folks used the cover of a chaotic situation
|during a disaster to murder their neighbors for their skin
|color. Let's not pretend they have *just* started flying
|Confederate flags.
|u/V6Ga - 1 month
|
|> In case anyone is curious about a hurricane party, it isn't
|usually a full-fledged party. Ya ain't. You may not have
|hurricane parties but lots of people do. Most people really do
|think bad things will never happen to them.
|u/scott743 - 1 month
|
|Hurricane parties are type two fun in the best of scenarios. We
|evacuated to Atlanta during Irma in 2017 and stayed local with a
|friend in Fort Myers during Ian in 2022. It was great sharing
|meals while riding out the storm in safety, but both times we were
|anxiously waiting to see if our home survived the storm surge (it
|did but only by a few hundred yards).
|u/BigOlBlimp - 1 month
|
|you use so many words
|u/Sulli23 - 1 month
|
|And the Cajun Navy stepped up huge when Harvey hit Houston in
|2017.
|u/Brief_Lunch_2104 - 1 month
|
|I prefer a hurricane orgy
|u/onehundredlemons - 1 month
|
|It didn't happen. The "lone survivor" made the story up, it seems,
|or possibly one of the apartment residents who heard someone say
|they should get some beer and party. The truth is that 8 people in
|the building died, but they weren't partying, there was a shelter
|there, they'd boarded up the windows as well. The apartment owner
|said the building would be safe and he seemed to have actually meant
|that, though he was wrong. Residents stayed because of the shelter
|and the assumption that the building would be strong enough to
|withstand the storm. The myth was known as a myth locally for
|years, and it's been debunked nationally several times since 2000 or
|so, but it keeps getting repeated.
|https://www.nola.com/news/weather/that-infamous-hurricane-camille-
|party-on-aug-17-1969-it-never-
|happened/article_acee3db1-ec9d-5fa6-bdc2-1ad983263903.html
|https://www.clarionledger.com/story/opinion/2020/08/17/hurricane-
|camille-party-1969-fact-fiction/5599847002/
|u/SpaceMurse - 1 month
|
|I went to Pass Christian to clean up a few weeks after Katrina. Just
|slabs, slabs everywhere. And a mile or two inland, houses in the
|tops of the trees.
|u/ebonybutterfree - 1 month
|
|Several sites say the party and subsequent deaths never happened.
|https://www.nola.com/news/weather/that-infamous-hurricane-camille-
|party-on-aug-17-1969-it-never-
|happened/article_acee3db1-ec9d-5fa6-bdc2-1ad983263903.html
|u/ersentenza - 1 month
|
|I thought that was an urban legend
|u/GeneralCAG - 1 month
|
|You are correct, this story has been disproved multiple times.
|However, that does not take away from the significance of Camille
|or the destruction and deaths that occurred.
|u/No_Indication3249 - 1 month
|
|[Wikipedia indicates](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Camill
|e#Hurricane_Party) the party is an urban legend originating in an
|interview broadcast on the PBS show Nova in 1989. "There was no
|hurricane party \[...\] We were exhausted from boarding up windows
|and helping the police move cars. We were too tired to party. I
|can't tell you why that story persists, or why people didn't put two
|and two together. I guess the hurricane party makes a good story."
|u/OlGreggMare - 1 month
|
|This is the one my family always told me. House on Havana Blvd where
|I spent a lot of time, boat in Pass harbor. They said it would
|happen again and there's Katrina. Ship Island is the easiest way to
|see the longer term change but I remember knowing where houses used
|to be only because there were blank rectangles in the trees. Lesson
|hopefully learned on stilt houses Andrew was the only one I recall
|having a party because it's path was unknown, feel more than a
|little bit bad when I heard what it did to Florida
|u/bankrupt_bezos - 1 month
|
|Is ship island the one with the yacht in a tree across from the
|golf course?
|u/OlGreggMare - 1 month
|
|It's an old fort a small way into Mississippi sound, next to Cat
|Island, south from Gulfport. Katrina cut the island in half
|u/speculatrix - 1 month
|
|It really brought the house down!
|u/malthar76 - 1 month
|
|Tear the roof off the mother sucker.
|u/Presto123ubu - 1 month
|
|Oh man, I went to Pass Christian after Katrina to help; it had been
|wiped off the earth.
|u/June_Inertia - 1 month
|
|Gulf State Park had a hotel on the beach. About half the slab
|remained after Camille. The remains are across the street from the
|Lake Shelby Playground.
|u/NoPoet3982 - 1 month
|
|It turns out that this is an urban myth! [https://en.wikipedia.org/
|wiki/Hurricane\_Camille#Hurricane\_Party](https://en.wikipedia.org/w
|iki/Hurricane_Camille#Hurricane_Party) Hurricane Party An [Urban
|legend](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_legend) about Camille
|states that 24 residents of the Richelieu Manor Apartments in [Pass
|Christian, Mississippi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pass_Christian
|,_Mississippi), which was in the path of the eyewall, held a
|"[hurricane party](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_party)"
|as the hurricane made landfall, and that all but one died. In
|actuality, there was no party; 23 people are known to have stayed in
|the apartments during the hurricane, eight of whom died despite
|taking all precautions they knew in order to secure the building.
|The tale of the party, and the lone survivor, apparently originated
|with survivor Mary Ann Gerlach,[^(\[12\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/
|wiki/Hurricane_Camille#cite_note-Sullivan-12) who also told her
|story in [a 1989 episode](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nova
|_episodes#Season_17:_1989%E2%80%931990) of [*Nova*](https://en.wikip
|edia.org/wiki/Nova_(American_TV_program)). Another survivor, Ben
|Duckworth, has expressed irritation at the story. "There was no
|hurricane party," Duckworth reiterated in 2001. "We were exhausted
|from boarding up windows and helping the police move cars. We were
|too tired to party. I can't tell you why that story persists, or why
|people didn't put two and two together. I guess the hurricane party
|makes a good story."[^(\[25\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurric
|ane_Camille#cite_note-25)[\[26\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurr
|icane_Camille#cite_note-26)
|u/gumbo-taco - 1 month
|
|Same here. Grew up on MS coast. Every year during the season there
|were always the comparisons.
|u/gwaydms - 1 month
|
|After Hurricane Katrina, people said, "Camille killed more people in
|2005 than it did in 1969." A lot of residents whose homes survived
|Camille stayed, thinking nothing could be worse than Camille. They
|were wrong.
|u/heirbagger - 1 month
|
|Sorta OT: My house has made it through Camille, Frederic, Elena,
|Georges, and Katrina, and yet my insurance is like a gajillion
|dollars a year. (Not really but like $4000 this past year).
|u/ActuallyYeah - 1 month
|
|Insurance thinks you're highly likely to make a five-figure
|claim in the next few decades. Sorry.
|u/heirbagger - 1 month
|
|Yeah, I know. When we bought the house in late 2017, hazard
|and wind was like $1800/year (no flood required). For our
|prior policy, the cheapest quote we could get for the same
|coverage was $6800. Our current policy is close to $4000,
|which is a shit ton cheaper, but man oh man, I long for the
|days of pre-Covid pricing lol. It’s a shame because I see
|ourselves potentially being priced out of our home solely
|because of escrow - which is currently 50% of our mortgage
|note, compared to about 35% when we bought the house - but we
|cannot afford to move more inland at this time. One day maybe.
|u/gwaydms - 1 month
|
|I'm not sure what our insurance is on the Texas coast but it
|ain't cheap.
|u/rognabologna - 1 month
|
|Wow, that’s heartbreaking. You lay it out very succinctly 
|u/MrFishAndLoaves - 1 month
|
|Always remember my grandparents talking about Camille and Betsy, and
|we grew up in New Orleans with both having 6+ feet of water in their
|homes. Honestly the title mentioning Virginia is a bit shameful.
|u/JARsweepstakes - 1 month
|
|I went to USM with a lot of folks from the Coast. My roommate from
|‘Goula introduced me to his (much) older father, who told me a boat
|was pushed up the Singing River a mile and ended up in the drive
|through of a Burger King. I saw what Katrina did down there, and
|Camille was worse
|u/snazzynewshoes - 1 month
|
|Shout out to the Golden Eagles! Katrina took ALL the live oaks. That
|makes me sad.
|u/Stray-hellhound - 1 month
|
|I remember hearing it buried pine needles in trees from speed of wind.
|Always broke my brain trying to understand that
|u/TeniBitz - 1 month
|
|After Ivan (not quite as bad), we found pine needles stuck through
|our metal carport (which was a mangled mess of its own). I still
|remember how terrifying that was to hear next to my window all
|night.
|u/msflagship - 1 month
|
|My childhood priest was new to the southeastern US from Ireland in the
|late ‘60s and didn’t fully understand what hurricanes were. He
|survived the storm surge at St. Michael’s on the beach in Biloxi by
|clinging onto the cross on the dome roof and praying for dear life
|That luck couldn’t have happened to a better man, the dude’s hilarious
|u/Luminous-theory - 1 month
|
|Damn that’s an intense read. Nature went boxing with this dude at 50k
|feet and he lived
|u/FiveUpsideDown - 1 month
|
|My Grandmother told me stories about Camille.
|u/Caped-Baldy_Class-B - 1 month
|
|I grew up in south Mississippi in the '80's and the effects of Camille
|were still seen everywhere. Everyone had stories about it, buildings
|and total areas would be a ghost town and my parents would just
|attribute it to "Camille". As a kid it's spooky, like Camille was a
|ghost still haunting the land and the people.
|u/grambino - 1 month
|
|My dad grew up in Bay St Louis and was a teen for Camille. We used to
|visit the area every summer when I was a kid and it's amazing to me
|now how much that storm was still ingrained in the local culture 30
|years later. I remember seeing the boat that got tossed across Beach
|Blvd in maybe Gulfport that they just left there, and the bent cross
|in Christ Episcopal. And the fact that everyone above a certain age
|still had vivid memories of it that they talked about almost
|nostalgically. I haven't been there as much as an adult but it seemed
|like Katrina was more of a total reset, probably because everything
|was just gone afterwards.
|u/rckid13 - 1 month
|
|During Hurricane Maria the airport weather station on St. Maarten
|stopped functioning at 173 knots which is about 200mph. It kept
|broadcasting that last reading for almost a month.
|u/Leebites - 1 month
|
|My mom was 21 and living in New Orleans (so she has stories of
|flooding mainly) but my dad was in Biloxi. He said he watched his
|neighbor's house disappear over the span of an hour from the winds.
|They were in a built/hand made bunker of sorts by their own house that
|got a lot of damage. Katrina later wiped out everything that Camille
|couldn't. Crazy how much difference between the two! Edit: wording
|u/The_Grungeican - 1 month
|
|[A hurricane is coming!](https://youtu.be/nGXsq0g8H-Q?t=35)
|u/K4NNW - 1 month
|
|The landslides that resulted from that rain are the reason that one can
|see rocky hillsides in Nelson County, VA where there was once soil and
|plant life.
|u/soberpenguin - 1 month
|
|The big rocky outcropping off rt29?
|u/K4NNW - 1 month
|
|Yes, those.
|u/Ryanisreallame - 1 month
|
|Oh, wow! I’ve driven that stretch countless times and had no idea
|that was why the rocks were visible. Thanks for learning me!
|u/soberpenguin - 1 month
|
|Always wondered about those when I was driving down to Lynchburg
|College
|u/FarmerHunter23 - 1 month
|
|Forever LC!!
|u/acwire_CurensE - 1 month
|
|Any landmarks you can think of nearby? I’m trying to picture where
|it would be an I’m struggling to find it.
|u/FarmerHunter23 - 1 month
|
|As you’re going North, the Livingston McDonalds is on the left and
|the mountain straight ahead shows the marks of the slide. It
|killed 250 people in their beds and some bodies were never
|recovered. There’s a fascinating book about it called When the
|Mountains Roared.
|u/MattAtUVA - 1 month
|
|You might be thinking of the book "Roar of the Heavens" by
|Stefan Bechtel.
|u/One_True_Monstro - 1 month
|
|A Google search of the book does not return the results you’re
|claiming. You sure you got the title right?
|u/MattAtUVA - 1 month
|
|Search for "Roar of the Heavens" by Stefan Bechtel
|u/One_True_Monstro - 1 month
|
|Tyvm!!
|u/acwire_CurensE - 1 month
|
|Ahhh yeah I can kind of picture it now, thanks!
|u/NoahtheRed - 1 month
|
|Holy shit. I never knew that was from Camille. That McDonalds
|was about the exact halfway point on the drive from college back
|home to Roanoke. I knew Nelson county got devastated, but that's
|insane.
|u/KILL_WITH_KINDNESS - 1 month
|
|The ones at 37.771564, -78.861647? Just behind the Catholic
|Church?
|u/soberpenguin - 1 month
|
|Yes that's it
|u/K4NNW - 1 month
|
|You can see them a little bit when you're going north from
|Lovingston on US-29. The trees make it harder to see these days,
|but they're there.
|u/supersandysandman - 1 month
|
|Someone link a pic omgg
|u/downtuning - 1 month
|
|Growing up, I remember looking through my father's high school
|yearbook from Nelson County High School for the year 1969, there were
|whole families washed away - so many pictures of students who died.
|u/Nuggzulla01 - 1 month
|
|That is just sad. Here is to hoping these stories and shared
|experiences helped to save lives after, and into the future,
|Especially considering how all these weather events are rapidly
|ramping up and increasing in intensity. Do you think quality of
|buildings, and building codes were adjusted to make them potentially
|more resilient when these things inevitably happen again? It really
|makes one consider (and appreciate) the fact that things had to have
|happened (and lives likely lost) to encourage and enact stronger
|regulations for things that could be effected by events like this.
|Making it even more fucked up that we have people these days trying
|to roll back and/or outright remove these regulations that are ment
|to save lives... ALL for the sake of someones 'Bottom Line' and
|ShareHolder profits.
|u/downtuning - 1 month
|
|Back in the 60s/70s can't imagine building codes in the area were
|adjusted, but information about flood plains definitely did.
|Because the storm didn't weaken as expected and hit in the middle
|of the night, it caught everyone in the area off guard.
|Meteorology just wasn't as advanced back then. The stories of the
|hurricane get passed down in families, they will not be soon
|forgotten. The old folkways are still alive.
|u/K4NNW - 1 month
|
|The storm hitting in the middle of the night was one thing that
|happened with us when Florence hit in 2018. A little potent
|batch of rain went up Greens Creek near the Parkway in Franklin
|County and caused some flooding, but thankfully not on the scale
|of Camille.
|u/JustDyslexic - 1 month
|
|Probably not because who would think a stronger storm would
|happen. It is probably worse now because we have replaced so many
|green spaces with buildings and parking lots the ability for the
|land to absorb water is much less.
|u/in_conexo - 1 month
|
|That was a bit of a crazy read.
|>[Avalanches](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avalanche) occurred on
|hillsides with a slope greater than 35 percent. This is a large
|number of houses where I'm at.
|u/skippythemoonrock - 1 month
|
|For reference, that's a ~18 degree slope or about half the grade of
|your average set of stairs.
|u/veringer - 1 month
|
|> Nelson County, VA [That tracks with the rainfall totals](https://en
|.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Camille#/media/File:Camille_1969_rainfal
|l.png)
|u/Horror-Antelope4256 - 1 month
|
|It rained 12” in 1 hour in Nelson County
|u/Any_Accident1871 - 1 month
|
|Reminds me of growing up in Utah and looking for avalanche slide paths
|on the mountain sides whenever we were driving around in the winter.
|There's a particularly famous one called the [Crow's Foot](https://cdn
|3.locable.com/uploads/resource/file/375295/fit/1000x600/crowsfoot_202.
|jpg?timestamp=1721629657) that overlooks the Salt Lake valley.
|u/YeaSpiderman - 1 month
|
|I am in hosuton and was here during hurricane Harvey. It wasn’t bad
|until it sounded like there was a giant heavenly spigot in the sky they
|suddenly got turned on full blast and lasted for days. Harris county
|(Houston) had 1 trillion gallons of water dumped on it in 4 days. I
|can’t imagine any worse but yet here we are with Hurricane Camille Just
|checked my rainfall total for my area …36”
|u/RxDuchess - 1 month
|
|My parents were living there for that, they were in the attic
|attempting to rescue things when they opened the dams. When they left
|the attic there was a foot and a half of air between the water and the
|ceiling and they had to swim out. We aren’t American and couldn’t get
|over the fact they did that with no warning, from memory that actually
|killed a few people. Thankfully the cats were already on the second
|floor of another house with the neighbours so they were okay Edit:
|cat tax featuring Ibra staring mournfully on a second story balcony.
|https://imgur.com/a/hgQC9BB
|u/curvebombr - 1 month
|
|A lot of people drowned in their attics during Katrina. They had
|PSAs to keep a axe or hatchet in the attic for this reason
|afterwards.
|u/RxDuchess - 1 month
|
|That doesn’t surprise me at all. Did they also open flood dams?
|u/Uhh_derp - 1 month
|
|Levees broke during Katrina, and a lot of New Orleans is below
|sea level. So it just became part of the ocean. They had to make
|some tough decisions with the dams around Houston during Harvey
|though
|u/RxDuchess - 1 month
|
|I only wish they’d sent out any kind of warning before they
|did, completely understand why they had to
|u/LooksAtClouds - 1 month
|
|They announced on the news that the dams would be opened at
|midnight(?) I think. Then they had to open them almost immediately
|instead, because the water at the Addicks dam quickly got within a
|foot of the controls system electronics. If it had blown out the
|controls system, the dam could NOT be controlled at all and possibly
|the entire dam would have given way. It was already being eroded
|around the north end. A horrible decision to have to make. I'm glad
|your parents were OK. I think 2 people died in apartments along the
|bayou from the resulting wave of water. I have always felt that
|they didn't explain enough about the situation.
|u/ElysianWinds - 1 month
|
|What do you mean opened dams?
|u/Social_Gnome - 1 month
|
|The dams were full beyond capacity, and were at risk of bursting.
|They basically had to do a “controlled release” of the water to
|relieve some of the pressure. It was a crazy amount of flooding,
|but an actual dam break would have been worse.
|https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/shows/below-the-
|waterlines/2022/08/09/429488/five-years-after-harvey-a-solution-
|to-the-flood-threat-from-the-addicks-and-barker-reservoirs-
|remains-a-long-way-off/?amp=1
|u/Apptubrutae - 1 month
|
|Camille was an absolute torrent compared to Harvey. Harvey wins in
|length and total volume of water, but it was over a relatively longer
|timespan. It wasn’t full blast at all. At least versus a maximum
|possible full blast. I think the most I’ve seen is 5” per hour or so.
|It gets absolutely wild at that level of rain.
|u/YeaSpiderman - 1 month
|
|I bet. I’m saying knowing what I experienced, it’s mind boggling
|that there was worse at some point in time.
|u/mysteryinterest2 - 1 month
|
|I lived in Houston for years. Had a thunderstorm pop up at the
|office in northwest Houston and some radar estimates had 7” in the
|hour it lasted. Trapped for a while, thankfully isolated and it
|drained enough to go home after a few hours. Scrambled to move some
|cars in the parking lot to higher ground as the young and stupid
|one.
|u/Salphabeta - 1 month
|
|How does the air even hold that much water?
|u/bbot - 1 month
|
|A cubic meter of air masses 1.29kg. At 100% humidity at 20C, it can
|hold 18.7 grams of water vapor. But if it cools down to 19C, it can
|only hold 17.5 grams of water. So 1.2 grams of water condenses out
|of the air and falls as rain. We arrive at the big rainfall numbers
|by multiplying that 1.2 grams by the entire sky, and [begging your
|pardon Mister President but it's a bigass
|sky.](https://youtu.be/qk9MK5smzVE?t=66) Assume a column of air one
|kilometer on a side and ten kilometers tall. (About 35k feet, up
|where airliners fly.) That's ten billion cubic meters. If it's fully
|saturated and falls in temp by 5 degrees C it'll drop 50 million
|liters of water on the ground. And storms *move.* This is why
|meteorologists talk about [atmospheric
|rivers.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_river) Water
|evaporates off the ocean, flies inland, and then lands on your head.
|u/gusmedeiros - 1 month
|
|What an incredible response. As an engineer who studied a lot of
|thermodynamics, air tables, etc, I just never thought of rain in
|terms of how much water air can hold, although as most similar
|concepts it feels obvious in hindsight. Thank you for sharing.
|u/ActuallyYeah - 1 month
|
|It brings it in from the coast like a conveyor belt
|u/Kufat - 1 month
|
|briefly
|u/TheJaybo - 1 month
|
|That's the same amount of water that passes over Niagara Falls in 4
|days.
|u/WayToTheGrave - 1 month
|
|I'm bornt and raised coastal North Carolina and the worst rain I've
|seen was hurricane Matthew. It dropped 20" in about 30 hours and it
|was just incredible.
|u/dan_144 - 1 month
|
|I can't believe ND and NCSU still played that weekend
|u/NoStorage2821 - 1 month
|
|Fellow Houstonian here, it was like someone parked the ocean above our
|heads and dumped it all over the course of a several days
|u/TheRavenSayeth - 1 month
|
|The frustrating thing about Houston is it's got all this oil and gas
|money, but refuses to put in place major long term solutions to the
|chronic flooding problems that hit the city when hurricanes
|predictably come through. Like I'm no genius, but if you know that a
|certain area is going to flood over easily, invest in some pumps and
|tanks to contain it. Beef up your drainage system. Do something other
|than, "Whelp looks like it's happening again. We'll just watch and see
|how bad it is this time."
|u/Cutting_The_Cats - 1 month
|
|Cant do that, have to spend infrastructure money on humvees for the
|police departments and on building more highways.
|u/gecampbell - 1 month
|
|A friend of mine in high school grew up in Alabama. He said that, during
|Camille, he was on their porch with his father watching the water rise,
|when some water blew into his face. “Oh my God, that’s salt water!” They
|got in their car and drove all night. The house was 14 miles from the
|coast.
|u/Plasibeau - 1 month
|
|Yeah, if you ever needed a sign, that would be it right there.
|u/slick_pick - 1 month
|
|sign for what? im lost goes to show i will not survive the
|apocalypse 🙃
|u/CyberWolf09 - 1 month
|
|A sign to gtfo as soon as possible.
|u/bbqbie - 1 month
|
|New fear unlocked
|u/SibyllaAzarica - 1 month
|
|New phobia unlocked!
|u/HeyManItsToMeeBong - 1 month
|
|birds are a lot easier to drown than you might think many people who
|try to help injured birds or babies by dropping water into their mouth
|end up killing them because it goes down the wrong tube
|u/TheManicDepression - 1 month
|
|Another interesting fact, the tensile strength of a crows neck is
|very weak
|u/Flincheddecor - 1 month
|
|Calm down Dennis.
|u/alphachupp - 1 month
|
|LOOK AT ME WHEN YOU’RE TALKING TO MEEEEEEEEEE
|u/Captain_erektion - 1 month
|
|Well yes there was a third crow and a fourth if you must know, but
|who likes crows?
|u/ManualPathosChecks - 1 month
|
|Since you're counting crows, why not play us a song?
|u/CrabMan-DBoi - 1 month
|
|He's gonna snap your neck like that crow
|u/Camtastrophe - 1 month
|
|Well of course there was a second crow!
|u/rubysmama16 - 1 month
|
|Maybe you should try it again, just to be sure
|u/JSteigs - 1 month
|
|How about shear and compressive strength?
|u/Sea-Outside-9028 - 1 month
|
|Your opening comment reminds me of the bird flu episode of Parks and
|Rec lol. “How do I kill them? Just fill up a bathtub and drown them
|one by one?”🤣
|u/gedden8co - 1 month
|
|One of the best random quotes from that series!
|u/Uncle_Freddy - 1 month
|
|I know evolution is truly random, but I still can’t believe the
|breathe hole, drink hole, and eat hole are all the same hole and
|that hole has a concerningly high number of false positives when it
|comes to routing food/liquid/air to their correct path considering
|that false positives can be fatal
|u/MSeager - 1 month
|
|Could be worse. At lease the "waste" hole is a different hole.
|u/--__--__--__--__-- - 1 month
|
|Usually
|u/HeyManItsToMeeBong - 1 month
|
|kinda makes it more believable tbh pretty far from what one might
|call "intelligent design"
|u/AristarchusTheMad - 1 month
|
|The more external holes on your body, the more places for
|infections to happen.
|u/otter111a - 1 month
|
|Chickens can drown because they look up to see where the rain is
|coming from.
|u/LindseyIsBored - 1 month
|
|My coworker had a rain-wrapped tornado hit her house. While her and
|her family thought they would be safe in the basement, the tornado
|blew out all the windows and the pouring rain flooded the basement and
|they almost drowned. I’ve lived in tornado alley my entire life and
|never considered that scenario but it definitely unlocked a new fear
|for me.
|u/MrTheBest - 1 month
|
|Luckily it takes a lot longer for a basement to flood than for a
|tornado to pass over. Tho i imagine it could be hard to tell when
|its safer to leave vs stay during a dark stressful event like that
|u/eso_nwah - 1 month
|
|Creepy story. I was 9 and sheltering with my mother in the second house
|up from the beach in Biloxi MS through the whole thing. My dad was in
|Vietnam or he wouldn't have let it happen. He took an emergency leave
|and arrived after the storm. We lived on a hill up from the beach
|highway (sand, highway, hill up from the highway, one house then our
|house), at about 21' above sea level which is one of the highest points
|in Biloxi. Mom thought there would be no way we'd get 22' rise and
|didn't really think out the winds, so proud of that modest hill. The
|night before I went out onto the street, facing straight down the hill
|and out into the gulf, and I could spread out my shirt and lean
|ridiculously forward. We came inside when it became hard to keep your
|feet. The water got to the top of the hill but didn't come into the
|first floor basement, but it was the rain that flooded everything that
|formed a crack. Our beach-facing second story windows blew out and
|flooded the second floor and the hardwood strip floor warped up into
|crazy patterns you couldn't hardly walk on in the coming weeks. But the
|main thing-- The neighbor's place you looked at from those windows used
|to be a house but was just a foundation, the next day. There had to be
|tons of small tornados inside that storm, or VERY LARGE things orbiting
|AND going up and down also, or both. Because the house next to ours was
|levelled to the foundation, and the whole city was that way-- house,
|bare foundation, bare foundation, house... not to mention the full-sized
|shrimp boats in the large oak trees (two of them between Gulfport and
|Biloxi that I saw). Natives always assumed tornados forming and
|unforming, because it was very noticeable that it was COMPLETE LUCK that
|we survived. Everywhere you could see wiped-away ground (like, large
|trees and concrete buildings ripped off and all or half the trash
|carried off) next to still-standing and even relatively complete
|structures. Also there were live powerlines everywhere the next day and
|one of my schoolmates was killed stepping on one.
|u/NibblesMcGiblet - 1 month
|
|This is incredibly well conveyed, your writing is a delight to read.
|If you're not already a participant of /r/AskOldPeople/ you might
|enjoy it. It gives an opportunity to share memories and answer
|questions people have, which hopefully in turn will help them to go
|forward being able to relate how things "really were as told to me by
|someone who experienced it" about any number of things. I enjoy it.
|u/Ancient_Amount3239 - 1 month
|
|Shows that’s not a community :-(
|u/NibblesMcGiblet - 1 month
|
|r/AskOldPeople/ sorry i forgot the starting slash. edit - both
|links are working for me, not sure why it's not working for you.
|let me get a direct link hang on.
|u/Ancient_Amount3239 - 1 month
|
|Still not working :-/
|u/NibblesMcGiblet - 1 month
|
|[https://www.reddit.com/r/AskOldPeople/](https://www.reddit.co
|m/r/AskOldPeople/) that should work!
|u/Ancient_Amount3239 - 1 month
|
|That was the trick!
|u/Sparowl - 1 month
|
|I lived in Tennessee and through several tornados, and COMPLETE LUCK
|is a good way to describe how they work. We lived on a cul de sac
|and had a tornado walk its way across. It went through two houses on
|opposite ends of the street - completely ripped them up, destroyed
|them, left pieces in the houses on either side of both of them. But
|the houses outside of those six (the two that were hit, and the four
|on either side) - almost perfectly fine. Maybe some debris, the flower
|pots outside might be gone, but as far as actual damage? Almost
|nothing. Tornados are absolutely concentrated forces of doom.
|They'll go where they want, destroy what they touch, but can easily
|leave everything outside of that path fine.
|u/Tensokuu - 1 month
|
|Definitely a reason they're called the Finger of God.
|u/conspiracy_troll - 1 month
|
|My parents had 9 kids and had to evacuate us to Gorenflos during the
|storm. I was a baby, so I don't remember it.
|u/BDR529forlyfe - 1 month
|
|Thank you for sharing this. I can’t imagine how horrific that was.
|u/1Fresh_Water - 1 month
|
|That was an amazing read, I could imagine it all perfectly. Thank you.
|u/gymnastgrrl - 1 month
|
|There may well have been tornadoes, but also: recentish studies of
|hurricane winds have shown that they..... churn a lot more than
|previously thought. As in, the wind is constant above ground level,
|but at ground level in particular, it basically forms eddies like a
|stream in rapids, so you get little tiny bursts of wind that affect
|small areas, close to other areas that aren't so unlucky, which would
|help explain why you might have two houses next to each other with
|only one blown away leaving just the foundation. Because closer to
|the water, the water will tend to level everything. But if it's just
|wind, it can be a bit more hit-or-miss. Which is wild.
|u/meleetwo - 1 month
|
|this story reminds me of how my papaw and mamaw talked about Camille.
|thank you for sharing.
|u/Honest-Income1696 - 1 month
|
|I enjoyed your writing and telling of this. You have a talent if you
|didn't know. I grew up in Tennessee by way of Mississippi and I felt a
|little at home reading it. Thank you.
|u/goodkat_2010 - 1 month
|
|My mom was in Nelson County, VA when this rolled through. She was around
|10 years old staying at her grandparents farm on top of a hill. The
|farmhouse had a tin roof. She always told me they went to bed and it
|wasn’t raining and they woke up and it wasn’t raining but all through
|the night the sound of the rain on the tin roof was like someone had a
|fire hose pointed right at the roof. People in their homes were
|literally swept away in the night. My grandfather went up in a
|helicopter during the recovery/rescue phase because the county had
|changed so much from the hurricane that maps were useless. So he had to
|point out where homes used to be that were swept away by the storm.
|u/XROOR - 1 month
|
|Then, her sister *Agnes* made landfall in Virginia June 1973, and
|filled Lake Anna (nuclear power plant) within a few months(373,000 acre-
|feet).
|u/fuckyourcanoes - 1 month
|
|My first husband told me stories about how he helped retrieve bodies
|washed out of graves during Agnes. Years after we divorced, I realised
|he was one year old when Agnes happened. Yes, I was young and stupid.
|Emphasis on the stupid.
|u/Ill-Diamond4384 - 1 month
|
|Pulled himself up by the bootstraps and helped out, even if he had
|to crawl around
|u/earslap - 1 month
|
|he had to swim uphill both ways to retrieve the poor bodies.
|u/Thoth_the_5th_of_Tho - 1 month
|
|It happens so often, but I'm always caught off guard by how
|blatantly people will lie. If I wanted to lie about my past, I'd be
|paranoid that people would look into it, so I'd make sure it was as
|hard to disprove as possible. But the actual pathological liars
|amongst us have demonstrated that that's usually wasted effort.
|u/KRambo86 - 1 month
|
|I knew that lake Anna wasn't a natural lake, but I have memories going
|as a child and no one told me it was a little more than a decade old
|when I was there as a kid. That's crazy.
|u/ThePretzul - 1 month
|
|It's a very pleasant lake to swim in during spring and fall because
|water temps always stay warm compared to other areas. On account of
|it being a nuclear cooling pond and all, but still in the right
|places water temps hang out in the 70-80 range.
|u/ThePretzul - 1 month
|
|Turns out the warm water there feels nice for both people AND
|bacteria. Whoops.
|u/Ok_Improvement4204 - 1 month
|
|Just like a hot tub. You leave it too long and it’s a
|veritable Petri dish.
|u/sleevieb - 1 month
|
|That’s from all the farmers and cowshit. I grew up swimming in
|the lake and the only thing that ever killed peoples  regularity
|were drunk jet skiiers and people swimming near the water
|inlets. 
|u/DrunkenJetPilot - 1 month
|
|Went to a friend's lake house there many years ago, it was almost
|bathwater warm. When we'd get chilly sitting on the dock we'd just
|jump in the water to warm up
|u/StarboardSailor - 1 month
|
|Was it safe? being that it's a nuclear cooling pond.
|u/DrunkenJetPilot - 1 month
|
|Nope, whole thing is just glowing with radiation and I grew an
|extra eyeball and 13 testicles.
|u/StarboardSailor - 1 month
|
|LMAO I tried googling and I couldn't find an answer so
|figured fuck it ask the source ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯
|u/DrunkenJetPilot - 1 month
|
|It's safe, the cooler water doesn't actually contact
|anything radioactive, it basically works like a radiator
|passing a pipe through the radioactive water to pull out
|heat
|u/ofd227 - 1 month
|
|Agnes was a Cat 1 hurricane that made landfall in Panama City but was
|so destructive to the LeHigh Valley they retired its name. Agnes
|nearly wiped out my city in upstate NY. Worst storm we've ever
|experienced
|u/XROOR - 1 month
|
|Wow! Florida?!? I thought it was South Carolina all this time!
|u/Philadelphia_Bawlins - 1 month
|
|My mom's parents got hit with Agnes all the way up in NEPA. People
|still talk about it up there.
|u/machuitzil - 1 month
|
|"Birds drowning in trees" sounds like the 11th biblical plague that the
|editors decided to cut out for the sake of brevity.
|u/rainbowgeoff - 1 month
|
|Or cause they were like, "nah, no one's gonna buy that one. Stick with
|the blood up to the horse bridles, and the lady who loves the donkey
|cocks that shoot like horses. Much more immersive that way."
|u/clyde_the_ghost - 1 month
|
|“Drowned birds? But when Noah escaped the flood we sent a dove?
|Either the birds drown or they don’t. Make it make sense.”
|u/Retrokid - 1 month
|
|Choice deep cuts from the album. You know your way around the book,
|I see :)
|u/rainbowgeoff - 1 month
|
|Benefits of an evangelical childhood. Happily, am an atheist now
|and have escaped such a dreadful lifestyle.
|u/asdfqwerty123454321 - 1 month
|
|My family lives in Nelson county where Camille ripped through. Hearing
|the stories is pretty insane. Things like whole homes floating away,
|entire families disappearing, etc. For some reason the most eerie moment
|was listening to this exchange Family member 1: “what ever happened to
|so and so from elementary school?” Family member 2: “remember, nobody
|ever saw them after the flood” Family member 1: “oh that’s right”
|u/RutCry - 1 month
|
|I was eight and we lived in Hattiesburg, 65 miles North of Gulfport.
|That night when the storm got bad and the trees started to come crashing
|down my father got my little brother and me out of bed and turned the
|sofa over on top of us. I remember crawling to the end of it and
|looking out at him standing at our open front door watching the storm;
|just a silhouette backlit by constant lightning against the horizontal
|howling rain.
|u/ebbiibbe - 1 month
|
|Drowned Birds?!?!?? Nightmare fuel
|u/queenbonquiqui - 1 month
|
|The Roar of the Heavens - Stefan Bechtel It’s a book that takes you
|through the entire life of hurricane Camille. It’s an amazing read with
|some photos as well. Torn Land - Simpsons. Came out the year after the
|hurricane. It has lots of local stories specific to the counties
|affected in the Blue Ridge.
|u/Ancient_Amount3239 - 1 month
|
|Just put it in my cart. Thanks!
|u/ClosPins - 1 month
|
|I was driving in the Utah desert once, in the middle of summer. It was
|a beautiful, clear, sunny day - and then, all of a sudden, I drove into
|a downpour. I was on the highway, and BOOM, like someone had turned on
|a tap overhead. I immediately turned my wipers on full-blast, but that
|did nothing. I couldn't see anything at all past my hood ornament. It
|was really scary, I was on a busy highway, and all of a sudden, couldn't
|see a thing. I started slowing down, so that I could pull over onto the
|shoulder. But, I still couldn't see a thing out the front windshield.
|Even with the wipers whipping back and forth. Within a split second,
|the entire windshield was covered in water. I gave up trying to see
|ahead of me - and actually had to look out the side window, as I could
|just barely see the lines beside me (so, yeah, that was the visibility,
|about 5 or 6 feet). I had to stop and pull over, from highway speeds,
|without looking in front of me! With other cars all around in the same
|situation. Luckily, no one plowed into anyone else. They all must have
|stopped, right in the middle of the highway.
|u/Alitalia - 1 month
|
|Microburst
|u/create360 - 1 month
|
|This happened to me once about 20 years ago too near Fayetteville
|Ohio. Had to stop the car on a main road. I could barely make out the
|yellow line next to the driver’s side window. It was daytime.
|u/pompusham - 1 month
|
|Had the exact same thing happen to me in Nashville ~5 years ago. Was
|visiting an ex-girlfriend’s family and it randomly started raining so
|hard I stopped in the middle of the street. I literally couldn’t even
|see the shoulder to pull over for a solid 3 minutes.
|u/jcacedit - 1 month
|
|My dad once told me that the water was over the roof line of the
|Manassas rest stop that is off of rt. 66.
|u/Street-Raccoon3146 - 1 month
|
|I was stationed at Kessler AFB in Biloxi when Camille dropped in. The
|night before we were all on the beach drunk and joking about a gal named
|Camille who was going to blow every guy on base. The next day no one was
|laughing, 180 mph winds; however I was hoping that our WWII barracks
|would get blown down, no such luck.
|u/pizdec-unicorn - 1 month
|
|Man you know you're cooked when mother nature tries to waterboard you
|u/Strangelittlefish - 1 month
|
|You should check out the Great Flood of 1916 in Western NC. Over 22" of
|rain in 24 hours across the steep mountain landscape. My great
|grandmother used to tell stories about standing next to the river and
|watching houses and bodies float by. Here's a good article [Flood of
|1916](https://www.ourstate.com/flood-of-1916/)
|u/techman710 - 1 month
|
|We lived in New Orleans when Camille hit. It was our first hurricane, so
|we stayed. Before it hit landfall it veered East and hit Mississippi
|head on. We had a lot of damage but we lived. After this when a
|hurricane came our way we went North to get clear. But anyway when
|Camille hit we got 30" of rain in about 26 hours so I know what OP is
|talking about. Camille was one hell of a storm and if it had hit New
|Orleans head on there wouldn't have been anybody left for Katrina.
|u/MmmDarkBeer - 1 month
|
|Growing up in south louisiana the hurricanes of legend were Camille and
|Audrey.
|u/Porchtime_cocktails - 1 month
|
|If you enjoy reading, the book Hurricane Audrey: The Deadly Storm of
|1957 was a fantastic read. Also, Last Days of Last Island: The
|Hurricane of 1856 is a good read too.
|u/Urocyon2012 - 1 month
|
|A friend of mine is a forensic anthropologist who went down to help
|with the identification of bodies from Katrina. One of the sets of
|remains she worked on was found in a coffin that had been found after
|Rita blew through a month after Katrina. The coffin was old and
|covered in muck from the bayou. Many coffins have memory tubes
|incorporated into their design that contains information about the
|deceased (name, date of death, etc). Thankfully, the coffin in which
|these remains were found had a memory tube, and they were able to
|identify the remains. Apparently, back when Audrey blew through, this
|coffin had gotten spit out into the bayou and was never recovered.
|Well, 50 years later Rita spit it back out.
|u/heirbagger - 1 month
|
|While growing up, my mama always said about my room: “it looks like
|Camille came through here!” Now I tell my kid: “it looks like Katrina
|came through here!” I wonder what she’ll tell her kid lol
|u/chessset5 - 1 month
|
|When I was in Mississippi in 2015(?) there was a rain storm so heavy
|that I could not see my hand if I extended it in front of me. It was
|just a wave of whiteness from all the water fall. I can’t imagine also
|not being able to breath in that condition. It must have been
|frightening.
|u/Squirrel_Q_Esquire - 1 month
|
|Camille was so powerful that it cut an island in two. Then 36 years
|later Katrina said hold my beer.
|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_Island
|u/kdawg710 - 1 month
|
|Which the us rejoined and made an army base
|u/ImpressiveAverage350 - 1 month
|
|I forget if it was Camille or Agnes but my dad told me he was driving
|home past the landfill (garbage dump) and had to stop because
|*thousands* of rats were crossing the road in front of him to escape the
|flooding.
|u/ThisAllHurts - 1 month
|
|20-27 inches of rain in 3 to 5 hours. And almost half a foot fell in
|just 30 minutes. That’s incomprehensible.
|u/GarysCrispLettuce - 1 month
|
|I gotta experience that level of rain
|u/Bilore - 1 month
|
|My brother in Christ, did you read the title? The birds were drowning
|in the trees
|u/ColdIceZero - 1 month
|
|I have it on good faith that OP might not be a bird
|u/LectroRoot - 1 month
|
|You don't know that.
|u/DigNitty - 1 month
|
|No one knows you’re just a bird on the internet
|u/Langstarr - 1 month
|
|Birds aren't real
|u/Utopian_Pigeon - 1 month
|
|I beg to differ
|u/Fosterbudding1 - 1 month
|
|Username checks out
|u/Orange-V-Apple - 1 month
|
|Dee could be on Reddit
|u/jurrea619 - 1 month
|
|I believe Dee is more like a fish, the way her eyes are so far
|apart
|u/marshalcrunch - 1 month
|
|Are you a expert on bird law
|u/Plasibeau - 1 month
|
|Probably an Aquarius.
|u/7355135061550 - 1 month
|
|Well they don't have hands to cover their mouths with
|u/lo_mur - 1 month
|
|Surely their wings could it?
|u/Glass1Man - 1 month
|
|Perhaps they were using their wings at the time. Like a
|rudimentary lathe or something.
|u/fyonn - 1 month
|
|Unexpected galaxyquest…
|u/PumpyMcHangerson - 1 month
|
|Carrying coconuts mate.
|u/axw3555 - 1 month
|
|African or European swallow?
|u/LeapYearFriend - 1 month
|
|"rip to the birds but i'm built different. i would simply not allow
|that to happen to me."
|u/Orange-V-Apple - 1 month
|
|[That guy who said he’d have survived the Titan sub implosion
|because he’s built different](https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueUnpopul
|arOpinion/comments/14jmfj5/i_feel_like_i_wouldve_survived_the_sub_
|accident/)
|u/Theorex - 1 month
|
|What in the daffy fucky duck is this dude on? I'm built
|different? Unless you're built as a steel I beam you aint.
|u/iFeel - 1 month
|
|Are you sure that being built like steel beam is enough to
|withstand the surface of the sun temperature and pressure,
|similar to standing inside a medium-sized atomic bomb
|explosion at the same time?
|u/-Nicolai - 1 month
|
|He was engaging in what his native people call “humor”.
|u/SpiritDouble6218 - 1 month
|
|I mean, he literally is built different though
|u/movzx - 1 month
|
|Humans famously unable to hold their breath or place something over
|their head to block rainfall.
|u/Coro-NO-Ra - 1 month
|
|This sounds like waterboarding^2
|u/Happy-Engineer - 1 month
|
|Install twelve showerheads in a single cubicle then get inside with
|your clothes on
|u/sansaman - 1 month
|
|Jeez. You’re supposed to send the invite first.
|u/Stop_Sign - 1 month
|
|I appreciate your helpful impulse
|u/StandUpForYourWights - 1 month
|
|At Guantanamo they have this in the main resort. Right next to the
|speakers and the lights that are always on
|u/Missing_10millimeter - 1 month
|
|Right?? That was my immediate reaction as well....I must know.
|u/DrunkenJetPilot - 1 month
|
|I'm with you, I love me an intense storm
|u/Daemonrealm - 1 month
|
|That level of rain isn’t really rain as we normally experience it.
|Think of standing under a heavy flowing waterfall and trying to
|breath. But no where to get out of under the waterfall except inside
|some sort of cover.
|u/WesternOne9990 - 1 month
|
|It would be incredible glory
|u/thissexypoptart - 1 month
|
|Put your face in the shower stream?
|u/Nazamroth - 1 month
|
|Oh man, i was caught by such a rain once. Was a struggle to even
|breathe. My nuke-proof shoes got filled with water as my socks wicked it
|in from the air. The houses on the opposite side of the road were just
|silhouettes. There was an international festival march in town at the
|time, and the local TESCO let everyone in and started handing out their
|towel stock because wtf even was that?!
|u/VisceralMonkey - 1 month
|
|Camille is "the big one" that anyone growing up on the gulf coast
|anywhere always heard about. A real nightmare storm, that and the old
|Galveston storm of 1900.
|u/baddoggg - 1 month
|
|This whole thread reads like a Stephen King story.
|u/OrangePeelsLemon - 1 month
|
|The birds didn't actually drown in the trees. The rain just shorted
|their circuitry.
|u/Ok_Spend_9630 - 1 month
|
|I thought they were still analog back in the 60s and didn't convert to
|digital until the 80s.
|u/Affectionate-Memory4 - 1 month
|
|Unfortunately analog can still short. The hand-wired circuitry of
|the time may have even been more susceptible.
|u/elbarto232 - 1 month
|
|r/birdsarentreal for the uninitiated Join the movement!
|u/Calm_Memories - 1 month
|
|I really feel for those animals. Must have been absolutely terrifying.
|:(
|u/pallidamors - 1 month
|
|Not for very long
|u/Prophet_of_Fire - 1 month
|
|I need a visual aid for this one. What does theoretical pobable maximum
|rainfall look like in action.
|u/charmbomb11 - 1 month
|
|I grew up across the mountain from Nelson County. My dad was a teenager
|and went over the mountain to help find people and clean up after the
|rain stopped. He remembers distinctly the smell of rotting animals and
|people killed by the flash flooding. Horses, cows, deer, etc. He has a
|hard time driving through the area now with some of the things he saw.
|u/Clearly_Disabled - 1 month
|
|My mother lived in Louisiana. They climbed on the roof, tied a line to
|the Chimney and secured their grandma amd waited. All they could do was
|go on one aide od the roof, wait for the eye, and then climb over to the
|other side foe the 2nd half. The water reached to the gutters, and they
|watched cars, boats, and the dead float past.
|u/something_borrowed_ - 1 month
|
|I realize this is from a bit ago but do we have videos of this? Any
|video of what this rain was like in a simulated environment would be
|cool too. I can not imagine what this would be like so any videos or
|photos would be awesome.
|u/piandaoist - 1 month
|
|I found this [video with
|footage](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYSNwTYhtDY). Check at around
|8:55 to see whiteout conditions caused by the rain that fell in
|Virginia.
|u/2ByteTheDecker - 1 month
|
|Well fuck that's a hell of a sentence.
|u/Kebler - 1 month
|
|Someone posted over on /r/rva the other day about the 14th street bridge
|flooding in Richmond during Camille. There was a really amazing story
|about Camille that came out of it by /u/americanspirit64. Here's the
|post (and an amazing picture of flooding): [https://new.reddit.com/r/rva
|/comments/1eox0yn/was\_anyone\_around\_when\_the\_14th\_st\_bridge\_floo
|ded/](https://new.reddit.com/r/rva/comments/1eox0yn/was_anyone_around_wh
|en_the_14th_st_bridge_flooded/).
|u/WobblyGobbledygook - 1 month
|
|*Psst*--"Virginia" has 3 i's in it.
|u/Humble-Cantaloupe-73 - 1 month
|
|My favourite hurricane party story? Darwin Australia 1974 Hurricane
|Tracey Christmas Eve. Mate of mine was already having a Xmas party. He
|got so drunk he passed out. Came to in the morning. Lying on a the
|floor. Gradually realised there was no roof. Then - no walls. He
|thought "My drunken Mates destroyed my house". He staggered upright,
|looked around : there were no houses in the street with roof's or walls.
|He did not know what had happened. Okay ok - down under we call them
|cyclones, and not 'hurricane parties ' either -rather 'Sly Cone events'
|u/mtommygunz - 1 month
|
|I have been in a rain storm backpacking that it was raining so hard you
|had to out your head down and gulp for air. It was wild. Lasted for
|maybe 30 minutes, I can’t imagine it lasting longer than that it was
|horrible.
|u/elderberry_jed - 1 month
|
|Really? What's that like? That sounds... well hard to imagine
|u/mtommygunz - 1 month
|
|Like suffocating. You can’t breathe bc the water comes down so hard
|that you’re trying to breathe air but the water is not only taking
|the air away but you breathe in water. Running in a heavy rainstorm
|is the same thing. But I was walking. And still had to put my head
|down to breathe.
|u/QueenOfQuok - 1 month
|
|Rain so thick you could swim through it
|u/PinballScissor - 1 month
|
|Dallas can get a lot of rain at once sometimes. Obviously not on that
|level but I remember a thunderstorm happened coming back from the state
|fair and I was riding the train. The doors would open and it would just
|come in sideways hitting people halfway down the train. My stop came up
|and I got out and was immediately absolutely covered in rain. Every inch
|of me. Felt like those big buckets of water at water parks I. The kid
|sections that fill up and pour down all at once. I could barely see feet
|in front of me. I could barely find my girlfriend. She almost got gushed
|down the huge two story stairs. We got in our car and just sat there for
|like an hour before it died down enough for us to be able to drive.
|u/Tell_Amazing - 1 month
|
|Virgina huh
|u/JuvieBeans - 1 month
|
|Virgina
|u/Caped-Baldy_Class-B - 1 month
|
|I grew up in south Mississippi in the '80's and the effects of Camille
|were still seen everywhere. Everyone had stories about it, buildings and
|total areas would be a ghost town and my parents would just attribute it
|to "Camille". As a kid it's spooky, like Camille was a ghost still
|haunting the land and the people.
|u/ThisAllHurts - 1 month
|
|I was a *very* little kid visiting some family in Gulf Shores in the
|‘80s, and there were whole parts of the state (and esp the beach) that
|still weren’t rebuilt. Everyone just said “Camille” for about two
|decades. It earned its one name with Andrew and Katrina (and I
|guess Sandy, if you’re a New Yorker unaccustomed to it).
|u/Gambler_Eight - 1 month
|
|Id love to experience this, for like 20 seconds.
|u/scribbyshollow - 1 month
|
|What the fu..wh..what!? Your telling me it can rain so hard you can
|drown? I have seen some.down pours in my day but not like that.
|u/Major_MattMason - 1 month
|
|In August of 1969 I was six years old. My father had gotten a new job
|and the family was moving from Starkville, MS to Lynchburg, VA. We got
|to experience Camille twice. Once leaving Mississippi and a second time
|after arriving in Lynchburg. It made quite the impression on a six year
|old. The rush to get everything on the moving company's truck. Leaving
|Mississippi on a very rainy windy day. In Virginia getting our stuff off
|the moving company’s truck without it getting ruined. We couldn't go
|outside to get out of the way of the unpacking and it seemed every adult
|(not just family) was a little freaked out that the James River was
|rising so fast.
|u/ds5500s - 1 month
|
|The sound…
|u/ThisAllHurts - 1 month
|
|I’m guessing it would just be one indistinct, deafening roar for hours
|u/bambarby - 1 month
|
|Wtf kinda title is that lol
|u/JackhorseBowman - 1 month
|
|Dang I live in VA and all I ever heard about was how crazy Andrew was.
|u/Robynsxx - 1 month
|
|Okay. I 100% when to experience this in a simulated environment. Does
|that make me crazy?
|u/Top_Explanation_1748 - 1 month
|
|In Nelson County, bodies were found in trees because the rivers had
|flooded so high. 114 dead in just a couple of days.
|u/Tricky-Gemstone - 1 month
|
|That is fucking terrifying. Holy shit.
|u/PickleWineBrine - 1 month
|
|Was in the Air Force. Stood outside for 2 minutes in Biloxi during
|hurricane Ivan. It was hard to breath, felt like your breath was being
|ripped away... *intense*.
|u/Friendly-Local-1859 - 1 month
|
|My cousins left the house because of the rising water. They all drowned.
|The water stopped rising and they would have been safe if they stayed in
|the house.
|u/scissorrunnerX - 1 month
|
|Check out the story of the town Massie Mill. It got deleted by this
|hurricane. The stories of some of the people that went looking for
|survivors is really wild. Boulders the size of house due to the land
|slide. A high school couple, he dropped his gf off before the storm went
|home and heard what happened tried to get back to her but the mountain
|town was completely washed out. Its incredible to try and imagine the
|amount of water that fell down in a short amount of time.
|u/Bokbreath - 1 month
|
|>reports were received of birds drowning in trees, That doesn't
|mean it happened.
|u/edcross - 1 month
|
|“you’ve actually seen people looting raping and eating each other?”
|“No we haven’t actually seen that Tom, we’re just reporting it”
|u/GetsGold - 1 month
|
|[Reference](https://youtu.be/wCkchBXiaOE?si=ZOWajR16H_E3_v0M&t=25s).
|u/shepherdofthesheeple - 1 month
|
|I’m guessing that they couldn’t fly in the rain because it was so
|heavy and were forced to stay on branches with rising water that
|drowned them.
|u/XionLord - 1 month
|
|Or raining to heavily with water covering their face. Might not have
|been an all at once. Bit of moisture, bit of moisture, can't expell
|it from lungs because breathing in heavily brings more in.
|u/EggCzar - 1 month
|
|Bird waterboarding A friend whose family owns farmland in VA said
|“there's still some farm equipment up in trees from that on our
|land.”
|u/LynxJesus - 1 month
|
|Good point, if it's coming down so hard you need to cup your hands
|over your face to even breathe, it's hard to imagine you'd have much
|visibility on what's going on in the trees.  This being said, there
|must have been a lot of dead drowned birds by the time the weather
|cleared a bit and probably no other explanation as to how that
|happened.  Source : I was not alive back then and also didn't click
|on the article
|u/material_mailbox - 1 month
|
|Sounds like virgina was pretty wet
|u/TheReignOfChaos - 1 month
|
|You're thinking of the other state, Wet Virgina
|u/Eliseo120 - 1 month
|
|Why would you be outside in a hurricane?
|u/missouriblooms - 1 month
|
|One minute your inside, big wind and your outside all of a sudden
|u/orange_wraith - 1 month
|
|As a Florida native this has me keeled over laughing.
|u/VisceralMonkey - 1 month
|
|Accurate
|u/K4NNW - 1 month
|
|Because the house got washed away.
|u/jawshoeaw - 1 month
|
|I remember a big storm in North Carolina back in the 90s where we opened
|out mouths up to the sky and they filled with warm water! In seconds .
|u/Stranghanger - 1 month
|
|I remember this film being shown in grade school about this storm.
|https://youtu.be/J49V7gQyaxU?si=7JKlvxP3plgMdEHV A lady named Camille
|u/Gay_andConfused - 1 month
|
|Looking through those photos on the wiki page is Wild! Even cinder
|block buildings were nothing more than rubble! I was born in Virginia
|that year, a mere 3 months earlier. I'd ask my Mom if she remembers the
|storm, but she's lost her memory at this point, so it would just be
|frustrating for her. Our area must have avoided the worst of it, though
|as our neighborhood is full of houses built in the 30's and sits right
|on the bay.
|u/Strive-- - 1 month
|
|Wow, it's like it was a floating, falling lake.
|u/malakamanforyou - 1 month
|
|Virginia got so wet they coined the phrase “Virginia is for lovers”
|u/hdjkkckkjxkkajnxk - 1 month
|
|I am now having to force myself to breathe.
|u/joegetto - 1 month
|
|Well this answers a question I’ve had for a very long time.
|u/thefrostryan - 1 month
|
|This this the storm my FIL talks about, grew up in Hampton, VA
|u/RhetoricalAnswer-001 - 1 month
|
|Unrelated, but Virgina is one of the best portmanteaus I've ever heard.
|Well done (consciously or not), sir!
|u/athohhdg - 1 month
|
|I've read a similar account (book was written before '69) about a
|rainfall event where people had to cover their faces to breathe. It was
|estimated to be 18-24 inches per hour, to put a number to it. Even if it
|lasts for 10 or 15 minutes at that intensity is enough to cause massive
|flooding and washouts.
|u/-noiseg33k- - 1 month
|
|Virgina
|u/B1matth - 1 month
|
|that’s one wet Virgina
|u/Solid_Waste - 1 month
|
|The way the title is worded makes it sound like meteorologists still
|aren't sure if it's possible despite the fact it actually happened.
|u/UsualFirefighter9 - 1 month
|
|They *think* 5inches of rain fell in half an hour at the highest point
|of the storm, but a boatload of rain gauges got destroyed in the
|process and, well, nobody was standing over them at the time
|recording. Scientific models say that's the heaviest rainstorm ever,
|but there's always a chance Mother Nature gonna pop out and say "hold
|my beer." 
|u/Ascended_Hobo - 1 month
|
|With a corkscrew like propeller on a motor, like a boat, could one swim
|upwards in such conditions?
|u/QuietGiygas56 - 1 month
|
|So basically rainworld but irl
|u/nekonotjapanese - 1 month
|
|Probably the wettest we’ve ever seen in terms of water
|u/NativeMasshole - 1 month
|
|>Virgina 😏
|u/Weak_Sloth - 1 month
|
|Phew, thank the King I’m English; drowning in Virgina sounds dreadful!
|u/Kingtutstits - 1 month
|
|Climate same
|u/_Frog_Enthusiast_ - 1 month
|
|Average UK summer
|u/melance - 1 month
|
|Sounds like an average summer day on the gulf coast.
|u/Soaptowelbrush - 1 month
|
|That really doesn’t sound possible?
|u/Cool_Cartographer_39 - 1 month
|
|I was about 7 living in Arlington at that time. I don't recall it
|u/j4kefr0mstat3farm - 1 month
|
|Arlington is 2 hours away from the part of the state that got hit the
|hardest
|u/MyCuntSmellsLikeHam - 1 month
|
|Your parents probably got out of town like other smart people and you
|saw it as visiting family, nothing noteworthy
|u/HichardRammond - 1 month
|
|Mustn’t of happened then.
|u/DrunkenFailer - 1 month
|
|The people found when they stood under a roof, they were fine.
|u/captrudeboy - 1 month
|
|Dang....I kinda wanna walk thru such a rain
|u/Fit_Walk_5372 - 1 month
|
|Getting wet in a stormy 69 doesn't sound so bad
|u/okeleydokelyneighbor - 1 month
|
|[was it chubby rain?](https://youtu.be/SkbHfeWfxHw?si=z4_eAJE9_aLJhBbR)
|u/namenramen69 - 1 month
|
|.
|u/MidKnightshade - 1 month
|
|That’s insane.
|u/homeycuz - 1 month
|
|How does cupping your hands around your face help you breathe?
|u/Ghostly_Spirits - 1 month
|
|I’m guessing it means if you walked outside the rain density was so
|high it’d be like walking underwater. So cupping would create an
|umbrella over your mouth to have enough air underneath 
|u/homeycuz - 1 month
|
|You are a great communicator. This makes perfect sense now. For
|some reason, I was imagining cupping while underwater.
|u/mop_bucket_bingo - 1 month
|
|Just…out of curiosity…how does one establish that a bird drowned in a
|tree?
|u/mdsnbelle - 1 month
|
|They probably found them in their nests.
|u/mop_bucket_bingo - 1 month
|
|Ok so CAT 5 winds.. horizontal rain.. birds found…in the tree? In
|their nest?
|u/mdsnbelle - 1 month
|
|I don’t know. The edible just kicked in.
|u/notaredditer13 - 1 month
|
|Why you no stay inside?
|u/Dragoness42 - 1 month
|
|Who TF would go outside in that kind of weather to discover that you had
|to breathe through cupped hands?
|u/sovietbeardie - 1 month
|
|Damn. How many inches?
|u/UsualFirefighter9 - 1 month
|
|Official 27 but a whoooole lotta gauges broke, so 40 is just
|"speculation." 
|u/PrestigiousPea6088 - 1 month
|
|rain world
|u/Leroy--Brown - 1 month
|
|Virgina hehehe
|u/CelebrationKey9656 - 1 month
|
|That's fuckN insane
|u/Jizzturnip - 1 month
|
|Virgina must have been soaked
|u/Morex2000 - 1 month
|
|How they know birds drowned in trees?
|u/MightWooden7292 - 1 month
|
|when mother nature decides to waterboard you
|u/Traquer - 1 month
|
|Central Texas will take that with pleasure. Super dry there!
|u/heil_spezzzzzzzzzzzz - 1 month
|
|Where's Virgina?
|u/TwistedRainbowz - 1 month
|
|If people had to cup their faces to allow them to breathe, is it fair to
|assume that all other creatures perished?
|u/Hanginon - 1 month
|
|In the heart of it all, the story of **[Nelson County
|Va.](https://www.c-ville.com/a-flood-in-the-mountains-50-years-later-
|nelson-county-remembers-camilles-devastation/)**.
|u/Additional-Top-8199 - 1 month
|
|I report that I am skeptical about ‘reports’ of birds drowned in trees.
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